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title: Sir Gawain lay and slept softly, but the lord, who was keen on woodc… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Gawain lay and slept softly, but the lord, who was keen on woodcraft, was afoot early. Who acts: Sir, lord. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 53

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Sir Gawain lay and slept softly, but the lord, who was keen on woodcraft, was afoot early.

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**Who acts:** Sir, lord · **What happens:** lie, sleep, keen, be · **To what, where:** lord, woodcraft

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This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, lord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66084:6:53
# text = Sir Gawain lay and slept softly, but the lord, who was keen on woodcraft, was afoot early.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	keen	keen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	woodcraft	woodcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	afoot	afoot	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keen** | past · passive |  | the lord |  | woodcraft |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | the lord |  |  |  |  | afoot, early *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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